A dear friend of mine, and of the Extreme Ice Survey, passed away this past Friday, January 9, 2015. Dr. Alberto Behar, a researcher affiliated with both the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA and Arizona State University, was a specialist in conceiving, building and deploying exotic electronic instruments in difficult places. [...]

We are happy to announce that CHASING ICE is the recipient of the 2014 Emmy® Award in partnership with National Geographic for Outstanding Nature Program. On April 19, 2013, CHASING ICE premiered on the National Geographic Channel. The film has been screened on all 7 continents and in more then 175 countries.

James Balog will receive The Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize at Dickinson College for Global Environmental Activism in May. The prize was created to focus attention on the need to reduce the impact of human lives on the planet, particularly given the rising population predictions for this [...]

The faint glow of the soon to be rising sun welcomes our arrival as we nose into Andvord Bay on the western Antarctic Peninsula. We passed unscathed through the Drake Passage thanks to calm conditions and quickly motored south to 64˚ 50’. Here, the glaciers [...]

The Antarctic Peninsula separates the warm maritime climate of the Bellingshausen Sea to the west and the cold, dry continental climate of the Weddell Sea to the east. Thus far, we have been traveling and working along the western edge, [...]